What happened to Huey P. Newton? Age, Height, Measurements



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Huey P. Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on February 17, 1942. He was the second of seven children born to Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist minister. His parents named him after former Louisiana governor Huey Pierce Long. As a child, Newton faced racism and poverty in his segregated hometown. He was expelled from school in the fifth grade for fighting.

In 1955, Newton’s family moved to Oakland, California, in search of a better life. There, he attended Oakland Technical High School, where he excelled in mathematics and science. He also developed an interest in politics after reading Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto.”

After high school, Newton attended Merritt College, where he studied philosophy and politics. It was there that he met Bobby Seale, with whom he would co-found the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The organization’s original purpose was to protect African Americans from police brutality.

Under Newton’s leadership, the Black Panther Party became one of the most influential black power organizations of the 1960s. The group advocated for black self-defense, economic self-sufficiency, and political power. They also provided free breakfast programs for children and medical clinics for the poor.

In 1968, Newton was charged with the murder of an Oakland police officer. He was convicted and sentenced to prison, but the verdict was later overturned on appeal.

In the 1970s, Newton earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He also wrote his autobiography, “Revolutionary Suicide.”

In 1989, Newton was convicted of felony assault and drug charges. He served time in prison until his release on parole in 1992.

After his release from prison, Newton worked as a community organizer in Oakland. He also founded the Huey P. Newton Foundation, which provides financial assistance to families of police brutality victims.

Newton died of a gunshot wound in Oakland on August 22, 1989. His death remains shrouded in mystery, as the circumstances surrounding it are still unclear.

At the time of his death, Newton had an estimated net worth of $1 million.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia